In the first post of this series, No More Heroes? #1, I introduced the concept of post-heroic leadership and gave some reasons for its rise.  I also suggested that I have a problem with it, and here it is.  I don’t like the name.

The latest next big thing in management is something called ‘post heroic leadership’ (PHL).  ‘Post’ is one of those trendy prefixes – much like meta and multi – that keeps popping up everywhere.  Of course, it means after or subsequent to.  This being the case, just what exactly is ‘heroic leadership’?

I spoke last week to a teacher whose husband’s employer was dealing with the recession by avoiding making excess stock, but taking real stock of staff training needs and using the down time to cater for them.  At a time when training budgets are being cut along with everything else, I was dead impressed at [...]